Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_syscalls.c

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:33:18PM +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> You use two different interpretations of "to resolve": one time mapping 
> symlinks (and probably `..') into real paths, and the other time 
> mapping real paths to inodes.  If the standard was to mean that, they 
> would clarify this.  In this context (symlinks) resolving clearly only 
> means the former.

I know that we have two different meaning of resolve there. This is
further complicated by the fact that symlink might not be inodes at all.
You have given examples of both, symlink resolution and inode resolution
already. ".." is an inode operation after all, which just happens to be
part of the namespace too.

Joerg